main: failing since forever

Your build failed.
Ours too.

Notes on AI agents, flaky tests and pipelines that turn red the moment someone says "quick fix". Written between retries.

0days since
last green build

pipeline #4815

install41s
lint12s
unit tests2m 03s
e2e (it worked locally)9m 58s
deployskipped
$ npm test
warn: 214 deprecated packages, 3 of them are us
FAIL checkout.spec.ts — expected 200, got "it depends"
$ agent fix --confidently

Recent posts

Sep 28

I gave an agent root and it gave me a haiku

"Disk is full again / I removed node_modules / and also /usr".

agents
Sep 14

Flaky test or flaky developer? A field guide

If it passes on retry, it was the network. If it fails on retry, it was also the network.

testing
Aug 30

Ship it on Friday: a risk model in one emoji

We plotted every Friday deploy since 2019. The chart is just a fire.

ci/cd
Aug 12

Prompting your linter into agreeing with you

Turns out "please" does not disable rules. "eslint-disable" does.

tooling
Jul 25

The agent wrote 40 tests. All of them test the mock.

100% coverage, 0% confidence. A love story.

agents
Jul 03

Reading stack traces backwards, like a pro

The bug is always in the last frame you were too tired to read.

debugging

Wall of commit messages

fixfix fixactually fixrevert "actually fix" wipplease worktemp, do not mergemerged remove console.log (most of them)agent: refactor everythingundo agentit's fine